Upgraded Memory and now ehshell.exe is spiking the processor

[rakosnik]

I just upgraded the amount of RAM in my HTPC from 4 GB to 16 GB. But instead of getting a better performing HTPC now the processor is running much harder than before. By watching the task manager it seems the biggest difference is ehshell.exe is using a lot of processor percentage.

Any idea why this is happening?

Aby idea how to solve this problem?

[cwinfield]

The only thing that comes to mind is your virtual memory page file if system managed will have a max size of 32gb and might be causing increased hard drive and cpu utilization. You could set it to a more conservative value of 8192 max 4096 min.

[rakosnik]

I adjusted the page file according to the recommendations in this LifeHacker article

http://lifehacker.com/5426041/understan ... disable-it

I'm still having the same problem.

[cwinfield]

Not sure maybe you have a bad RAM module. What clock speed is the RAM, does it have a XMP profile, is the voltage set to what it's rated? From what I understand increasing RAM will increase CPU utilization & IO and may not indicate an actual problem. Also what processor? could it be struggling with 16GB?

[Crash2009]

CPU-Z might be able to tell you what's going on with the ram.

http://www.overclock.net/t/138137/cpu-z

Run it, click the validate button, and post the shortcut to the validation. Somebody here will figure it out for you.